Ibragimov Timur

Born on December 26, 1985, Timur Ibragimov is a Crimean Tatar, civic journalist and activist of the Crimean Solidarity. He has a wife and 4 children. Before the imprisonment, he was active in providing aid to low-income and orphaned families because he had also lost his father. In 2014, he began to cover events in Crimea and did civic journalism up until his arrest.

In 2017, his home was severely searched. That became a very traumatizing experience for his children. Timur has been imprisoned under the article 205.5, chapter 2 of the Russian Federation’s Criminal Code ("Providing the activity of an organization recognized as terroristic in the accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation") and sentenced to 17 years in prison. He is held in the penal colony №5 in the village of Klekotki, Ryazan Oblast, Russian Federation.

"In 1944, we had already been proclaimed traitors and deported to Asia in trains. Thanks to Allah, we returned. Today, however, under different pretexts, we are accused of "extremism" and "terrorism." Locals are being intimidated by those "little man." They openly say, "If someone doesn’t like it — get out". This is very reminiscent of 1944, only with a new, contemporary "sauce," Timur Ibragimov, 7 June 2019.